Quitterie Roquebert’s HDR defense

Event details :

Ms Quitterie Roquebert will present her work for the Diplôme d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) on the following topic:

‘Analysis of supply and demand in healthcare: applications to long-term care and primary care’

This HDR was supervised by Mr Bertrand KOEBEL, Professor, University of Strasbourg.

The jury was composed of :

Ms Carine MILCENT, CNRS Research Director, Paris School of Economics (rapporteur)

Ms Anne-Laure SAMSON, Professor, Université Paris Panthéon Assas (rapporteur)

Ms  Sandy TUBEUF, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain (rapporteur)

Mr Mathieu LEFEBVRE, Professor, University of Strasbourg (examiner)

Abstract: This report, written for the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, presents the research I carried out as a post-doctoral researcher at LIRAES (Université Paris Descartes) and then as a teacher-researcher at BETA (Université de Strasbourg). This research is structured around two themes: (I) the analysis of support configurations for the frail elderly, and (II) the study of changes in primary care provision in women’s health and the way in which these changes affect the practices of professionals and the care pathways of patients. In the context of ageing populations, the aim of the first area is to study how demand for and supply of long-term care meet, in order to understand the genesis of professional and family support configurations for the elderly. The work developed in this area focuses in particular on family help, the most prominent form of assistance, and takes into account the different forms of home and nursing home help. The second part of the study examines changes in gynaecological healthcare provision in France, in particular the decline in the number of doctors and the gradual extension of midwives’ medical skills. The aim is to find out how these changes affect relations between healthcare professionals and the care pathway for patients. The results of the work in these two areas shed light on the individual, family, institutional and territorial mechanisms that explain the use of care, the care pathway and the characteristics of the care supply, both for long-term care and for primary care in women’s health. They provide an opportunity to reflect on the associated public policy issues, in a context of demographic and organisational changes in healthcare systems.